There are many advantages
and disadvantages when it comes to the use of the internet, the advantages can
range from the smallest convenience to something more extravagant like other
cultures sharing there cures in the medical field. The disadvantages of the
internet also range from could be bad to disastrous example being it allows
hate groups to spread to other states. So
we should be asking the question what the internet provides for us that no
other can. This also raises the question where will we be in 50-100 years.
The
main advantages of having full access to the internet is convenience, having it
right there in the palm of your hand 24 hours a day for and circumstance that
presents itself an example being GPS if you’re on the bus, train, driving or
even walking your GPS can calculate the fast route to get there or it’ll tell
you that the route is unavailable due to lack of trains or roads. Another
advantage of having access to the internet is pure knowledge everything is on
the internet if you need to find what and where the largest building in the
world is Google or Yahoo can and will proved the answer, if you want to know
who holds the record for the raunchiest thing in the world (use your
imagination) the internet search engines out there will provide you with those
hard or interesting questions that you seek. In an article Advantages and
Disadvantages of the Internet by Ashwini Ambekar wrote how “Chat rooms,
video conferencing are some of the latest additions in this technology and
these have allowed people to chat in real time irrespective of the location of
the parties involved. The intranet allows for people within an organization to
easily communicate and share information.” Communication is a strong resource
that the internet provides a few examples being Document sharing if there’s a
breakthrough in a cure for stupid the information can be shared to the main
researcher that is perfecting the cure for stupid which we all know there isn’t
an actual cure or maybe you don’t. But with all these wonderful advantages
there are just as much or more disadvantages of the internet.
Now
that we have discussed the advantages lets go through some of the disadvantages
which could just be the opinion of this guy (thumbs pointed at the writer of
this blog). The biggest disadvantage to me would be the accessibility of the
internet, for example why do we (I include myself) as humans feel the need to
always check our statuses? When I send an email or write on my Facebook I feel
the need to always check it to see if anyone has responded or commented, it’s a
distraction from what is going on around you. Another disadvantage is Big
brother watching, now that almost everyone carries a cell phone or emails to
communicate the government feels the need to listen either to your calls or
just turn your microphone on and listen to your conversations (all in the
prevention of terrorism) Now you may be reading these and saying well if you
aren’t doing anything wrong than why should you care? And my answer to you is
simple what one man or women feels is a crime another may feel its purely
expressing their rights as an American. Ok my last disadvantage is job
security, with the internet being so Multi-Oriented its making some jobs
obsolete soon there will be no need for retail stores because it’ll be cheaper
just to order it from the factory or they’ll be no need for interpreters
(thanks to Google) or travel agents. It’s
getting to the point that you really don’t need to leave your house to find or
get anything.
So
now that you know my view points on the advantages and disadvantages of the
internet and how these may differ from the opinions of another. Just realize
that the expansion of technology will continue to expand do to the internet
being so connected worldwide leaving most things that could befit us as humans
obsolete.
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